jake, that call that was on full display today during this hearing was, of course, the hour-long phone call that then-president trump had in january with these election officials in the state of georgia. mainly the secretary of state, brad raffensperger, who you heard from today. and i m told that despite what you saw today, which was the committee playing clips of that call with claims from trump saying thousands of ballots had been shredded or thousands of dead people had voted, and then flashing to raffensperger saying that s not true, we checked that out. that s also not true. trump has continued to defend that call. he has said it was a perfect call. he has told people he assumed it was being recorded. there were attorneys on the line as they were in this hour-lawn call where he alternated between asking for raffensperger to find these votes, thinly veiled threatening him when it came to certain pushback on claims he was making, and despite the fact you heard from them
intended to intimidate lawmakers. if we have to, we re going to go to homes and let them know what we think about them. there were multiple protests. i don t remember the exact number, three at least outside either my district office or my home. you re correct. my then 15-year-old son was home by himself for the first one. all of my personal information was online. it was my personal email, my personal cell phone, my home phone number. in fact, we had to disconnect our home phone for about three days because it would ring all hours of the night, would fill up with messages. brian butt cutler, we re outside. outlining pressure from trump aides and the ex-president himself to peddle the big lie even as team trump admitted they didn t have any evidence. he said we ve got lots of theories, we just don t have the evidence. and i don t know if that was a gaff. maybe he didn t think through what he said. both myself and others in my group and my counsel both remembered tha
d.c. courthouse where navarro is expected to arrive in about an hour and a half. we ve got a lot to talk about and the best people to talk about it. new york times chief white house correspondent peter baker. nbc s pete williams. nbc s sahil kapur on capitol hill. ari melber, msnbc chief legal correspondent and host of the beat. let me start with you, ari, because i saw peter navarro on your program last night. he did not appear, to me, to be a man who thought he might be in federal custody less than 24 hours later. that s exactly right. he didn t sound like that. he didn t talk like that. he said he was in some sort of discussions with doj. this began with his public statements about what he called a green bay sweep or an effort to overturn the election, something he thought was legal, he talked about, and defied the congressional request and subpoena to testify about it. he did tell me about it here on msnbc. i said to him last night, if you re going to describe these
cowards about it. why kevin mccarthy still isn t ruling out testimony in the wake of his january 6th subpoena. plus, why republican politicians are actually calling for america to intentionally starve children amid the baby formula storage shortage. and new reporting on what we really know about those rumors surrounding vladimir putin s health. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, we are just a few days away from the next major primary night. this time in pennsylvania. both the governor s mansion and one of the state senate seats are open races, without an incumbent on the ticket. which means both parties have an equal opportunity. and the senate, race republicans are hoping to hold the seat that is being vacated by retiring senator pat toomey, but they face obstacles along the way. donald trump of course was the anti establishment candidate in 2016, and 2015. so self styled of such. but he is now the republican establishment. and rec
report on the abuse of new american native american children in u.s. schools. we will talk about congress looking into possible extraterrestrial. that s, right there have been credible sightings. we are opening up the x-files. we have to begin this morning right here on earth was some unprecedented developments here in the january six investigations. five sitting members of congress now facing subpoena testify and what they knew about the planning behind the insurrection. trump s five stages are already the already crying the subpoenas that an illegitimate west witch hunt. they are threatening investigations of their own if they retake the house in november. none of these five are willing to comply. it s the privilege for me. what do you think would happen to us if we defied a subpoena? joining me now is at the nation, he s also the author of the new york times black a black ice guy to the constitution. something we stiffening we need. i can t overstate how unpreced